The Going Is Good
At 61, Kathy Valentine, the subject of a new documentary on the Go-Go’s, shows no sign of slowing down
Catch Him on TikTok
The coronavirus has returned the late Bob Ross, who hosted the wildly popular TV series The Joy of Painting, to the spotlight
Sic Trans Gloria
Cancel culture moves into London and tries to rub out the Booker Prize, J. K. Rowling, and her defenders
The (Kanye) West Wing
Imagining his first 100 days
Frenemies, Cold War–Style
Dominic West and Damian Lewis take on one of the greatest spy scandals ever
Dancing and Dreaming
Songs to lift you out of this slump, from Thundercat, the Zombies, Steely Dan, Cymande, and more
On the Dodge
Retracing the life of Butch Cassidy, the American West’s answer to Robin Hood
Behind The Painted Bird
The contentious Holocaust author Jerzy Kosiński turned down every offer for a film adaptation. A Czech filmmaker finally takes on the story
All the World’s a Stage
Met favorites get star treatment in the New York opera house’s new series
Tracking an Apocalypse
How The New York Times will cover the zombie invasion
The Sun, the Moon, and the Star
Eve Hewson takes on her biggest role, in the adaptation of the Man Booker Prize–winning novel The Luminaries
Cry in Your Craft Beer
Country music for people who don’t like country music, from Gary Stewart, Joan Baez, Roy Orbison, Unicorn, and more
Roth Unbound
“He could love and hate and rage with the best of them”: a close friend of Philip Roth’s remembers the enigmatic writer
